/*

  LTE Game Engine SDK:

   Copyright (C) 2006, SiberianSTAR <haxormail@gmail.com>

  Based on Irrlicht 1.0:
 
   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Nikolaus Gebhardt

  For conditions of distribution and use, see copyright notice in
  engine.h
 
  http://www.ltestudios.com

*/

#ifndef __I_engine_DEVICE_H_INCLUDED__
#define __I_engine_DEVICE_H_INCLUDED__

#include "engineTypes.h"
#include "IUnknown.h"
#include "dimension2d.h"
#include "IFileSystem.h"
#include "IVideoDriver.h"
#include "EDriverTypes.h"
#include "IGUIEnvironment.h"
#include "IEventReceiver.h"
#include "ISceneManager.h"
#include "ICursorControl.h"
#include "IVideoModeList.h"
#include "ITimer.h"
#include "ILogger.h"
#include "IOSOperator.h"
#include "IAudioDriver.h"
#include "INetworkDriver.h"

namespace engine
{
	//! The engine device. You can create it with createDevice() or createDeviceEx(). 
	/** This is the most important class of the engine Engine. You can access everything
	in the engine if you have a pointer to an instance of this class. 
	*/
	class engineDevice : public IUnknown
	{
	public:

		//! destructor
		virtual ~engineDevice() {};

  
		virtual bool run() = 0;

		//! Provides access to the video driver for drawing 3d and 2d geometry.
		/** \return Returns a pointer the video driver. */
		virtual video::IVideoDriver* getVideoDriver() = 0;

		//! Provides access to the virtual file system.
		/** \return Returns a pointer to the file system. */
		virtual io::IFileSystem* getFileSystem() = 0;

		//! Provides access to the 2d user interface environment.
		/** \return Returns a pointer to the gui environment. */
		virtual gui::IGUIEnvironment* getGUIEnvironment() = 0;

		//! \return Returns a pointer to the scene manager.
		virtual scene::ISceneManager* getSceneManager() = 0;

		//! Provides access to the cursor control.
		/** \return Returns a pointer to the mouse cursor control interface. */
		virtual gui::ICursorControl* getCursorControl() = 0;

    //! \return Returns a pointer to the audio driver
    virtual audio::IAudioDriver* getAudioDriver() = 0;
    	
    //! \return Returns a pointer to the network driver
    virtual net::INetworkDriver* getNetworkDriver() = 0;
 
		//! Provides access to the logger. 
		/** \return Returns a pointer to the logger. */
		virtual ILogger* getLogger() = 0;

		//! Gets a list with all video modes available. 
		/** If you are confused 
		now, because you think you have to create an engine Device with a video
		mode before being able to get the video mode list, let me tell you that
		there is no need to start up an engine Device with EDT_DIRECT3D8, EDT_OPENGL or
		EDT_SOFTWARE: For this (and for lots of other reasons) the null device,
		EDT_NULL exists.
		\return Returns a pointer to a list with all video modes supported
		by the gfx adapter. */
		virtual video::IVideoModeList* getVideoModeList() = 0;

		//! Returns the operation system opertator object.
		/** It provides methods for
		getting operation system specific informations and doing operation system
		specific operations. Like for example exchanging data with the clipboard
		or reading the operation system version. */
		virtual IOSOperator* getOSOperator() = 0;

		//! Returns pointer to the timer.
		/** \return Returns a pointer to the ITimer object. The system time can be retrieved by it as
		well as the virtual time, which also can be manipulated. */
		virtual ITimer* getTimer() = 0;


		//! Returns if the window is active.
		/** \return Returns true if window is active. If the window is inactive,
		nothing need to be drawn. So if you don't want to draw anything when
		the window is inactive, create your drawing loop this way:
		\code
while(device->run())
  if (device->isWindowActive())
  {
    // draw everything here
  }

		//! Notifies the device that it should close itself.
		/** engineDevice::run() will always return false after closeDevice() was called. */
		virtual void closeDevice() = 0;

		//! Returns the version of the engine.
		/** The returned string
		will look like this: "1.2.3" or this: "1.2". */
		virtual const char* getVersion() = 0;

		//! Sets a new event receiver to receive events.
		virtual void setEventReceiver(IEventReceiver* receiver) = 0;

		//! Returns poinhter to the current event receiver. Returns 0 if there is none.
		virtual IEventReceiver* getEventReceiver() = 0;

		//! Sends a user created event to the engine.
		/** Is is usually not necessary to use this. However, if you are using an own
		input library for example for doing joystick input, you can use this to post key or mouse input 
		events to the engine. Internally, this method only delegates the events further to the 
		scene manager and the GUI environment. */
		virtual void postEventFromUser(SEvent event) = 0;

		//! Sets if the window should be resizeable in windowed mode.
		/** The default is false. This method only works in windowed mode. */
		virtual void setResizeAble(bool resize=false) = 0;
	};

} // end namespace

#endif


